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Just Logic
Exactly what the hell is an 'outside agitator', someone who doesn't live in Florida?
Aren't you inviting educated debate of your fine summary of events by posting your 'blog' on this site?
Is registration a requirement for this?
Kinda strange.
I found this, for what it's worth, by searching for further info on Cook.
There are a few direct, eye-witness accounts of his actions that day, which are important because they have been used by you, PZ Myers etc, purportedly 'outraged' at his treatment.
Words like: 'forceably-detained', 'man-handled', assaulted', even 'Inquisition', etc are freely thrown about in portraying this college student as someone subjected to Ecclesiastical opression, when nothing could be further from what actually happened.
Based on your response and links above, I'm getting a better picture of what you really believe: in your questioning of what constitutes a 'church' ('the room was magically transubstantiated'), you seem to be approaching a conclusion, but just don't have the stones to say it simply and straightforwardly; so allow me.
It's your conviction that because religious services (like a Catholic Mass) are held on public property (namely a University), that anything goes: that anyone can do whatever the hell he wants: he's not required to adhere to any modicum of respect and decorum, because its state, not Church property.
Is this what you think?
Catholics (and Jews and Muslims) can, and have been, holding their services on state colleges for decades.
Penn State, for example, has their largest classroom building (the Forum) filled to capacity with Catholic Masses on Sundays.
Is your assertion that any support that is received by these groups, at state Universities, illegal?